Closing a window with javascript/html

Question

I can't close a chrome window with javascript. I've read it because it needs to also be opened with javascript, but there must be an easy way around this. What am I missing here?

<html>
    <head>
        <script>
        function close_window() {

            close();

        }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>

    <a href="javascript:close_window();">close</a>
    </body>
</html>

possible duplicate of [window.close and self.close do not close the window in Chrome](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19761241/window-close-and-self-close-do-not-close-the-window-in-chrome) — Kritner, Jan 30 '15 at 01:03

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:03

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You can't close a window you did not open, the browser won't let you do it for security reasons. There is no workaround.

answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:03

Laurent Jalbert Simard

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:03

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Nope, you can only close what you open with window.open...

Or if you kill the browser with a memory leak or something. (joke)

answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:03

Shomz

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:04

See here. Use open() to open a new window, and close() to close the new window:

function openWin() {
    myWindow = window.open("", "myWindow", "width=200, height=100");    // Opens a new window
}

function closeWin() {
    myWindow.close();                                                  // Closes the new window
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:08

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In chrome it is not possible to close a webpage you did not open with javascript. It is possible however in some versions of firefox and internet explorer if that is an option for you.

 window.open('','_self').close();

answered Jan 30 '15 at 01:08

Ian Thompson

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Closing a window with javascript/html

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